I couldn’t find a better day to highlight the enogastronomic marketplace Eataly since today is Blog Action day, when (at last count) over 15,000 blogs would be talking about today’s topic: The Environment. Eataly, located in Turin was opened just this past February in the old Carpano vermouth factory. I am focusing on it today [...]

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It all started with Nicole’s yummy Double Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes. Mi era venuta la voglia di CUPCAKES….I wanted cupcakes, immediately. I hadn’t made cupcakes in Italy, for many reasons, least of all that I didn’t have a muffin pan. After Nicole’s cupcakes, I knew exactly what I wanted for my birthday, even if I had [...]

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The recipe is at the bottom of this post, but first you have to hear the story for its inspiration. October is (expat) birthday month??? Besides my own, it’s Michelle from Michellanea‘s birthday month, and another Michelle from Bleeding Espresso, Melinda from Living in Florence, and Tracie from My Life Italian and Sigrid from Cavoletto [...]

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So after our adrenalin-raising boat tour off the shores of Marettimo, we had a huge meal, and proceeded to wander around the island a few hours before heading back to the Sicilian main island. Though I was fascinated by these gentlemen, I had to remind myself that I was not in an adult Disneyland, these [...]

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Ok, we’ll have to take a break from all the “food porn” in Sicily to remember why we were there: seeing beautiful places in Sicily and spending time with our friends! Our friends were thinking about taking us to one of the Aegadian Islands near Trapani (the main ones being Favignana, Marettimo and Levanzo), when [...]

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